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How “scala” trended on Hacker News

“Scala” was mentioned 49,107 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2013 with 725 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “scala” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “scala”

1. 1.Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml 783 points · 370 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Scala 3.0 690 points · 281 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Scala Native v0.1 642 points · 240 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
4. 4.My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community 626 points · 704 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Towards Scala 3 490 points · 376 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Scala Native 466 points · 259 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers? 413 points · 419 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Hands-on Scala Programming 378 points · 103 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Scala – 1 Star – Would Not Program Again 365 points · 316 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Scala.js no longer experimental 337 points · 131 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Making the move from Scala to Go 325 points · 367 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Scala Center 319 points · 127 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN

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